A trans teen withdrew from the girls’ division of an Irish Dance contest in Florida after the organizers were pressured by state officials to kick her out. However, it is unclear whether the girl’s participation in the competition would have actually violated any law.
“No young person should become the center of a political fight simply because they want to participate in the activities they love,” said Public Policy Manager for Equality Florida Quinn Diaz in a statement. “At a time when Florida is competing to attract visitors, talent, and major events from around the world, the question for our leaders is simple: will we send a message that our doors are closed, that ours is only a state for some? Or will we make it clear that everyone is welcome here?”
The Irish dance contest is governed by the Irish Dance Teachers’ Association of North America (IDTANA). That organization has trans-inclusive policies that allow competitors to decide how they compete. They have previously defended those policies, and the community has supported that move, including by setting up a petition to the Dublin-based governing body, An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG), to voice their unequivocal support for the inclusion of trans dancers.
And you’re the one that brought up men. No part of this article or discussion was about men specifically. This is why gender education and eventual abolition is important, so bigots like you can understand what the word means.
It gets difficult and isn’t as easy as people like to think. Where where they in transitioning. Did they still gave a penis? I mean people not wanting someone with a penis changing in the Chang room with the girls in is going to be a hard sell for a lot of people.
Anyone that thinks this is a problem is a pervert. Genuinely porn brained pervert. I get that Americans have been morally repressed for their entire existence, I mean their founding members were puritans who thought genocide was just fine but a woman showing their ankles needs to be put to death, but anyone who thinks the human body is inherently sexual or there is anything possibly sexual about changing in a locker room with mixed sexes versus single sexes is ridiculously perverted and repressed about their perversion.
Kinda like how you brought race into the conversation when no one was talking about it.
Weird how one might swap out one equal variable for another to see if the equation makes more or less sense to a person that has not followed logic into their current position.
$Immutable_Characteristic deserves an exclusionary safe space and $Immutable_Characteristic_Variant shouldn’t have a say.
If you can fill in those variables with some equal thing and it turns into a bigoted statement, congrats, the original statement was bigoted as well. “Whites deserve an exclusionary safe space and Blacks shouldn’t have a say.” is equal to “Little people deserve an exclusionary safe space and average height people shouldn’t have a say.” is equal to “Straights deserve an exclusionary safe space and gays shouldn’t have a say.” is equal to “Women deserve an exclusionary safe space and men shouldn’t have a say.” is equal to… You get the point.
All are equally bigoted statements.
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It’s more than whataboutism, it’s a completely different argument there. No, I don’t particularly care about a transinclusionary ‘safe space’ hosted on an instance that doesn’t understand intersectional inclusivity includes class. I do care about people outside instances like that advocating for segregation, especially trans exclusionary segregation like you explicitly advocated for.
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I don’t think they’re okay, there’s a difference between that and picking a fight with an instance owner that believes that should be so. If .world starts hosting zionism comms instead of just moderating anti-zionist sentiment, I’ll just choose to block it like hilarious chaos and other such pointless right-wing instances.